TELTIGERA.] PELTIGEREI. 287 



1. P. malacea Fr. Lich. Eur. (1831) p. 44.— Thallus moderate, 

 smooth, opacjue, thicki-sh, usually very minutely punctato-tomen- 

 tellose, or obsoletcly adsperso-pulverulent, livid-brown when moist, 

 greyish-glaucous or glaucous-brown, or partly brownish when dry ; 

 beneath densely tomentosc, with confluent nerves and without 

 veins, brownish-black, broadly whitish at the margin. Apothecia 

 moderate, orbicular, or nearly transverse, vertically adnate, brownish- 

 red, the margin crenulatc ; spores elongato-fusiform, 3-5-septate, 

 0,058-74 mm. long, 0,005-6 mm. thick. — Cromb. Journ. Bot. 1874, 

 p. 147 ; Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 102 pro min. parte. — Feltidea 

 malacea Ach. S^-n. (1814) p. 240 pro parte. 



A very distinct species, though having a superficial resemblance to 

 some states of F. nifescens. The apothecia, whicii are not very numerous 

 in our few British specimens, are adnate on short, somewhat broad thai- 

 line lobules. 



Hah. Among mosses on rocks and about the roots of trees in moun- 

 tainous regions. — Distr. Gathered only in the S.W. Hi^'hlands and the 

 N. Grampians, Scotland; may be found elsewhere. — B. M. : Inverary, 

 Argyleshire ; Craig Cluny, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 



/3. microloba Xyl. ex Lamy, Bull. Soc. Bot., xxv. (1878), p. 378. 

 — Thallus smaller, more divided ; the lobes short, crisp, narrow. 

 Apothecia smaller, at length incurved. 



Smaller in all its parts, and might be mistaken for P. polydnctifla var. 

 hi/menina. In consequence of the thallus being more repeatedly lobed, 

 the apothecia are more numerous than in the type. 



Hab. Among mosses on walls in upland tracts of mountainous dis- 

 tricts. — Distr. Found only in the S. Grampians, Scotland. — B. M. : Glen 

 Lochay, Ivillin, Perthshire. 



2. P. canina HofTm. Deutsch. Fl. ii. (1795) p. 106.— Thallus 

 large, impresso-unequal, opaque, more or less adpresso-tomentellose, 

 of moderate thickness, roundly lobed, brownish-green when moist, 

 greyish when dry ; beneath whitish, with prominent, concolorous or 

 pale nerves, and long white rhizinoe. Apothecia moderate, sub- 

 rotundate, at length revolute, brown or brownish-red, the margin 

 nearly entire ; spores elongato-fusiform, 3-5-septate, 0,066-70 mm. 

 long, "about 0,004 mm. thick.— iludd, Man. p. 82, t. 1. fig. 22 ; 

 Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 29 ; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 107, ed. 3, p. 101. — 

 Feltidea canina Gray, Nat. Arr. i. p. 428 ; Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 60; 

 Sm. Eng. Fl. v. p. 215 ; Tayl. in Mack. Fl. Hib. ii. p. 153. Lichen 

 cauinHs Linn. Fl. Suec. (1755) n. 1109 : Huds. Fl. Angl. p. 454 ; 

 Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 845 ; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 69 ; Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2299. Lichenoides digitatum cinereitm. latvwn foliis sinuosis Dill. 

 Muse. 200, t. 27. f. 102 e. Lichenoides peltatum tei~restre cinereum 

 majus, foliis divisis Dill, in Ray, Syn. ed. 3, p. 76, n. 78. — Most of 

 the above, however, include also the following variety. — Brit. 

 Exs. : Leight. n. 141 ; Mudd, n. 59. 



The most common and best-known species of the genus, easily dis- 

 tinguished bv the larire thallus, with its tonientellose and (when drv) 



